The Dallas Stars face the Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night for the second and final time this season. Entering Tuesday's match, the Stars are 27-14-1 while the Maple Leafs are 27-15-2. Dallas is 93-99-33 all-time vs. Toronto, including a 39-55-20 mark on the road.

The Dallas Stars look to start a new winning streak when traveling for the last stop of their five-game road trip to Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs. The Stars are coming off their first loss in eight games when they were edged out 3-2 by the Ottawa Senators on Sunday.

Three straight regulation losses aren't a good sign. Exactly how much of a problem are the various underlying trends?

NHL analyst Stephen Nixon believes the Toronto Maple Leafs should trade Morgan Rielly for a variety of reasons. The post Analyst Calls for Maple Leafs to Trade $60 Million Star Defenseman appeared first on Heavy Sports.

They practiced on Wednesday and afterwards, some of the star players were asked about the fans and their boos raining down after the club. While forward Mitch Marner acknowledged that he hears the noise, he simply chooses to ignore it and focus on the work that needs to be done.

It's hard to pick an aspect of the game where the Leafs played well, turning what could have been a coin flip into a routine win for Dallas.

Last night, the Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Dallas Stars, and they didn’t get the result they were hoping for. They came into the game as losers of two in a row and coming off what might have been their worst effort of the season against the Vancouver Canucks.

The Toronto Maple Leafs head coach felt his players delivered. The result, however, was more of the same. And now a team that did well to grasp a new system in the first half of the NHL season is facing its first real bumps in the road.